2009 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise – Yorkshire & Humber winners

Three of the 11 recipients of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion are in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. They are:

•  Mr Charles Cracknell, Youth Enterprise and Employment Manager for Hull City Council, who works through both his paid role and a range of voluntary activities to help young people set up businesses in Hull. He is co-chair of Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership, and runs a Youth Enterprise Bank offering grants;
•  Mrs Jackie Frost, Enterprise Projects Manager at Rotherham Council who is very active in enterprise promotion in both a paid and voluntary capacity. Under her management Rotherham Youth Enterprise has contributed to three Beacon Awards. She has been a Volunteer for The Prince’s Trust for 15 years;
•  Professor John Thompson, Roger M Bale Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Huddersfield, has developed groundbreaking schemes. His degree course requires students to start and run a real business, and he was responsible for securing funding for the Huddersfield Business Generator, which has helped 200 new businesses.
  
  Eleven companies in Yorkshire and the Humber have won the International Trade Award, four the Innovation Award and two the Sustainable Development Award. The region’s winners are:
  
  International Trade
  · Shand Engineering, Grimsby, for oil pipeline systems;
  · William Beckett Plastics, Sheffield, specialist packaging for the cutting tool industry;
  · RMS Ltd, of Malton, high power electrical connectors for oil and gas industries;
  · William Jackson Bakery, Ltd, Hull, baker of bespoke breads, established since 1891, one of eight businesses in the Awards established before 1900;
  · Osborn Metals, Bradford, complex metal products for aerospace and energy industries, and mining products;
  · ATB Morley, Ltd, Leeds, electric motors for global niche markets;
  · Melett Ltd, Huddersfield, turbocharger repair kits;
  · Snugpak, Silsden, West Yorks, specialist sleeping bags and cold weather clothing;
  · Sematic Ltd, Wombwell, South Yorks, automatic elevator doors;
  · Nisa International, Grimsby, wholesale grocery exporter;
  · Turner & Townsend, Leeds, global construction and management consultancy.
  
  Innovation
  · AES Engineering, Rotherham, developer of Labtecta bearing seals which last significantly longer and improve the reliability of a range of industrial equipment, including electric motors, gearboxes and pumps, thus saving industry millions of pounds. This has enabled the company to become the second largest supplier of bearing seals in the world;
  · AES are one of three businesses nationally who have won an award in more than one category – see below;
  · EnviroVent Limited, Harrogate, filterless extraction fan;
  · Pace Plc, Shipley, developer of set top boxes for HD TV programmes;
  · Smartstak, Sheffield, one of the smaller companies in the Awards, with ten employees, for their load handling system for transporting glass bottles.
  
  Sustainable Development
  · AES Engineering, Rotherham, for pushing the bounds of good practice in sustainable design and manufacture and successfully seeking to reduce the company’s ecological footprint whilst producing products of evident environmental merit. They also won the Award for Innovation.
  · Environmental Construction Products, Huddersfield, trading as Green Building Store, who have sought to develop the market for greener or more sustainable building products. They have thereby changed the approach of an industry which has previously not fully embraced this challenge and normalised the concept, whilst delivering cutting-edge sustainability.